Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-06
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

SOuuCCtlCul.
A steamboat which plies between
Nahant and Boston flies the flags of all
nations.
-Eighty-four different languages
and dialects are regularly spoken in
New York City.
The annual product of the silver
mines of South America is estimated to
be twenty-six million dollars.
The highest silver deposit in the
world is on King Solomon's mountain,
in Colorado, fourteen thousand feet
above the Pacific ocean.
1t may not be known by every
body that there is no real black false
hair. Black hair taken from the head
fades shade, and has to be colored to
match even the head it was taken from.
1t is estimated that six hundred
insects day are destroyed by pair of
wrens. They have been observed to
leave their nests and return with in
sects from forty to sixty times an hour.
AT trial at the Clay County, Ga,
court the other day two witnesses were
put on the stand who did not know
who made them, had never heard of
heaven or hell. and did not know
whether a lie was right or wrong.
The United States pays every year
for cigars and cigarettes 1886, 800, 900
and $40, 900, 900 for tobacco smoked in
pipes TO this it adds the cost Of
chewing tobacco, $50,OO0,O00, bringing
the entire tobacco bill for the year up
to $256, 10000
Captain Williams, of the New York
police force, sailed his yacht for the
first time last Thursday. Stopping at
Cos Cob the hawser was cast ashore
and held for two hours by dog. The
faithful animal was an iron dog, an
chored securely in the pier.
Readers of some of the London pa
pers frequently find ghastly-looking
red human skeleton pasted on a con-
spicuous part of their paper. This is
not the work of the publishers. but of
an enterprising quack doctor who takes
this way of advertising his nostrums.
The author of new book saws:
Even when the simmering heats of
midsummer make the lower strata of
the atmosphere tremulous with their
passion, the drowsiness which steals
over one who is free from the irksome-
ness of labor under the hot sun is
crowded with rare dreams and fancies." "
This is just the weather to apply the
principles, for if heat doesn't simmer
now it will be difficult to find the sea-
son of its passion.
John Griffith, of Battle Creek. sat
urated his feet and stockings with gas
olne to cure his corns and then
scratched match on the slack of his
trousers to light his pipe. He didn't
light his pipe, though. The match and
the gasoline got together some way
and the junction caused flare-up in
which John took such an active part
that he didn't have time to smoke. BY
the time he gets the blisters on his feet
reduced it is likely that his corns will
be cured.
Hardly any of the best California
wines is the produce of single vine
yard. They are the fruit of judicious
blends, based on chemical analysis and
the law of combinations. One good
wine is deficient in one element, an
other good wine in another. BY blend
ing the two more perfect wine than
either is produced. Some of the best
wines are made by blending in certain
fixed proportions three or four wines
grown in different vineyards, perhaps
in different counties. 3 Chicago Herald.
e. M. Gallaudet writes to Science
that deaf mutes enjoy surprising i'm
munity from seasickness, though there
are exceptions. 'If / may say word
from my own experience Of number
Of ocean voyages, with decided ten
dency to be seasick, think great help
may be had by keeping in ones berth
at the first approach of rough weather,
eating moderately, and not rising un-
til the procession of digestion and as
similation have had time to be quite
fully completed after at least two OF
three meals"
"A Jewish "shadkin," or marriage
broker, in Brooklyn, n. T., spent some
time in end.avoring to negotiate
marriage between Il customer who
agreed to give ten per cent. of his
wife's dowry in case of success, and
one Kate Wolf, who was the possessor
of $4,000. The shadkin's powers of
persuasion were unequal to the job,
however, as the girl protested that the
applicants mouth and nose were too
large. The broker and his client fell
out over the matter, and the result is a
lawsuit for damages between them.
A female servant who had been in
the habit of carrying out tea, sugar,
coffee, etc, tied around her waist, w
der her clothing, from the house in
which she was employed in New York,
was called by her mistress just as she
was going out the other night, and be-